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I never read what they did to the cars for Cash For Clunkers.

this is pretty ironic... I was at Belle tire today getting an alignment, and one of the service techs there was talking to a customer about the cash for clunkers thing, the service tech told me they put silicone in the motor and run it for 5 minutes till the motor locks up. Its apperantly one of the rules for trading a car in as a klunker, it cant be resold to the general public and has to be sent to a scrap yard.

Its an extremely stupid rule because that means engines are going to become scarce for older cars, people who dont want to make car payments or buy a new car. I myself plan on keeping my SVT as long as possible, and this is going to make finding a motor in the future more difficult :mad:

Its actually kind of wasteful.
 
The entire deal really pisses me off...... take away a paid off vehicle and convince people to go into debt in a hard time like this. I don't get it :shrug:.
 
One thing I think that is ironic about this is the fact that the Democrats are always about helping people, but all this is doing is taking cars that lower middle class could afford off the road. I was in the market looking for something to haul things and put the dogs in....Durango, Exploder etc. But now NONE are on craigslist because everyone is trading them in. :mad:


Another thing is...it is rewarding the people who bought these "horrible gas guzzling" vehicles in the first place. Just like the people who got bailed out on their homes for over buying.
 
guys, this is nothing more than corporate welfare. The Big three were offering $9000 of sticker before the Cash 4 Clunkers program was started. Now they are offering the $4500 for the C4C, plus $4500 in dealer incentives. Same $9000 off sticker, however now you have to give them a running car (it must have been running, because it has to have been titled and insured for the past 12 months, who insures a non-running car) and then the government (taxpayers) subsidizes the car makers (big 3 and foreign) with $4500 less the scrap value for the car. People are going to be trading up to cars they can't afford, the car will get reposessed, they will not have the paid off, perfectly good car they used to have, the junkyards are going to be back-logged with cars that need to be crushed (how many junkyards have crushers and the steel industry is in the toilet and does not need the scrap) everyone's taxes will go up and more and more peeps will be unemployed. What a genius program. I hope the freeks at Greenpeace and Sierra Club will be happy.:mad:

Next they will have a program like this for health care. You have to trade in an old person, a smoker, or an obease person before you can have a baby. BOHICA:shocked:
 
I wasn't even worried about all of that. I was just bothered that they're also destroying some perfectly good cars (lets face it, I bet there's quite a few piles being traded in too) as a stipulation in this program.
 
Lord Stanley said:
Yea, I can see them killing the crappy cars, but that Volvo! C'mon, the noise the engine was making was horrible... I do not know how they could stand there and laugh about it :nonono:
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People are dumb just like the cash for clunkers program.
 
There's a dealer on Amherst St in Nashua that has a reasonably good condition early-1980s big ol' boat on their front lawn with "CLUNKER" written on the windshield. I didn't get a glimpse of what model it was, but I thought it was a vehicle worth saving.

I can see trying to make sure the cars aren't registered again, by salvaging the title or something, but to go so far as crushing the car and rendering ALL of its parts useless is idiotic. I guarantee someone would make a great business out of receiving the clunkers from the government for free and parting them out.
 
Of course the government is doing this. The more older cars they get off the streets, and force you to buy newer cars the better the car companies do. If you can't get parts for your old 80's car, then you will eventually have to buy a brand new car.

Its common economics.
 
I feel sick after watching some of those videos.

I don't understand, the max you can get in this program is $4,500. That Volvo is worth much more as a private party sale. :shrug:
 
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